Ahmed Veriava and Dale T. McKinley (2005), ‘Arresting Dissent’, in Arresting Dissent: State Repression and Post-Apartheid Social Movements (Johannesburg: Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation)

KEY QUESTIONS:

Why was there a rupture within progressive South African civil society in the early 2000s and what did this mean for the broader working class and poor?

Do you think the political nature of the South Africa state change in any fundamental way after 1994? Explain your answer.

What can present-day community organisations and social movements learn from the internal problems and challenges that led to the demise of the APF?

In your opinion and from your own experience as an activist, why do you think the ANC-run state continues to engage in wide-scale repression and marginalisation of community organisations and their struggles?

KEY QUESTIONS:

In what specific ways can we say that the current economic system in South Africa is ‘post-apartheid’, or not?

What does ‘financialisation’ of an economy mean and how has this benefited South Africa’s capitalists?

Why do you think xenophobia has continued to be a major problem in South Africa?

How has the increased commodification of land in South Africa impacted on social and economic conditions of rural workers/families

Do you agree that a majority of South Africans are opposed to most of the socially progressive clauses in the constitution’s Bill of Rights (for example, the right to equality based on sexual orientation)? Explain your answer.

Dale T. McKinley (2014),‘Secrecy and Power in South Africa’ in New South African Review 4: A Fragile Democracy – Twenty Years On, edited by Gilbert M Khadiagala, et al. (Johannesburg: Wits University Press)